Ant Dickinson

I am developing work that I have recently been working on as part of an Arts Council of Wales funded project looking at the use of algorithms and generative systems in the production of music.

I am exploring how similar techniques can be used to produce sound responsive visuals within live performances, particularly focusing on the use of noise within image generation.

I am particularly interested in the relationship that this ‘automatic’ approach within my digital work relates to Marja Bonada’s ‘automatic’ painting technique.

Amy Sterly

My woodcuts were originally inspired by a trip to Berlin and the Bauhaus architecture. Buildings which embodied the notion of bringing art and craft to the everyday life of the city. Working alongside Maija in Finland before has inspired a notion of the domestic in my work. By using rolling pins and other wooden objects to print scenes of rural landscapes, I am inserting a story into the objects and imagery, which is subverted by the comic speech bubbles and exclamations to create a menacing undercurrent in the rural idyll.

Marja Bonada

To me these Pendulum Drawings are drawings done by the Earth. They are a trace of the rotation of the Earth, and the forces that act on the pendulum. They illustrate the balance that exists in nature, it is nothing to do with humans, how this balance exists, we often only disturb and upset it. But this same balance exists within us as well.

Whatever we do, or don’t do, the world will keep on turning in its regular harmonious way, with its own rules that always work perfectly. Making these drawings has made me realise that fundamental fact of the Universe it is perfect, and if it ever goes out of balance, it corrects itself, and that imbalance and re-balancing is part of the pattern of life.

Maija Helasvuo, Sculptor

At the centre of Maija Helasvuo’s art, are the different levels of human feeling. Her sculptures picture peoples basic emotional dynamic; loss, vulnerability, closeness and our dependence on social interaction. Each person is a part of the complete community of humanity. Through communal experience and all the social forms within it, the process of an event is formed, the connection and interaction of which makes up the whole content of human society.

That which acts on the powerful emotions inside society as a directing force is in one way or another a common factor and causes a process of emotional adaptation. Things that happen in our environment affect us. Helasvuo’s sculptures picture this invisible influence, which is at once adaptable and concrete.